Opinion category, Page 755
Letter to the editor: Opportunities for women in energy
When I got started in the energy industry years ago, there weren’t many women. That’s beginning to change. My own trajectory is indicative of the growing influence women have in the natural gas sector. In 1994, I started in street service. My duties included meter reading, locating gas lines, and...
Letter to the editor: Walter Williams’ wisdom
Walter Williams had another brilliant, easy to understand and very insightful piece in the Trib (“How government creates conflict,” June 14, TribLIVE). He points out that a great proportion of the divide in America today is the result of the government deciding for us how to spend our tax dollars....
Letter to the editor: UPMC-Highmark decision will cause patients to suffer
The ruling from Judge Robert Simpson regarding the UPMC-Highmark debate (“Judge: UPMC-Highmark split set for June 30,” June 14, TribLIVE) may be the letter of the law, but it is a huge disappointment to chronically ill and disabled individuals. Qualifying for in-network access to a provider of choice by age...
John Stossel: Moral capitalism
Presidential candidates and the media keep telling people “it’s immoral” that a few rich people have so much more money than everyone else. They talk as if it doesn’t matter what the rich did to get the money. Instead, the fact that they are rich is itself immoral. Yaron Brook...
Walter Williams: Diversity & black education decline
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio says that the city’s specialized high schools have a diversity problem. He’s joined by New York City Schools Chancellor Richard A. Carranza, educators, students and community leaders who want to fix the diversity problem. I bet you can easily guess what they will do...
Editorial: Don’t let fear slam door on refuge
Refuge. It is a place of solace and sanctuary. Shelter from the wind and weather. Protection from wolves and want. Refuge is safety. So what do we do when it becomes less safe? Mustafa Mousab Alowemer, 21, a refugee from Syria who has been here for three years, was charged...
Letter to the editor: Love, hate for Donald Trump
If you honestly love truth, humility, grace, dignity and gentleness, then it stands to reason that you must hate the obverse. That is why, I maintain, that hatred has a legitimate place in the panoply of human emotions. I never thought that anyone could “unlove” Donald Trump more than myself....
Letter to the editor: Learn truth about global warming
Rudolph Puchan’s letter “Climate-change hogwash” (June 4, TribLIVE) is on the right track, although he seems to conclude that the issue of climate change is not all that important. In fact, it is very important because many who promote this myth have vested interests. Some want to garner research money,...
Letter to the editor: Video games & violence
It seems every day somewhere in this country there is some sort of incident in a school, be it a shooting, a threat or a weapon of some sort found on a student. Then we hear from experts and highly educated people that they cannot figure out the why. My...
Lori Falce: We need real-life superheroes
My friends are evenly split on a critical topic of our times. It’s not Trump or Mueller. It’s not Bernie or Biden. It’s not paper or plastic. It’s superheroes. In short, why is so much of our entertainment today wrapped up in masks and capes and “up, up and away”...
Laurels & lances: Helping, parking and paying
Laurel: To stopping to help. Good Samaritans Kim and Alex Kelley, who work at Kelley’s Pizza at the corner of routes 22 at 819 in Salem, dropped everything to rush out of their business to lend a hand to three injured passengers and a bus driver on a Westmoreland Transit...
Letter to the editor: Tariffs vs. free trade
Those who disagreed with President Trump’s planned tariff on Mexican products, understanding that it would most likely have resulted in higher prices for the American consumer, as well as higher costs to American businesses, are probably right. Their first response should be to contact their Democratic (and Republican) representatives and...
Letter to the editor: Dreaming of Democrats loving America
I had a dream that the Democrats and far left started to love America, defend America and most of all appreciate America. Some dream, huh. John W. Newhouse Shaler...
Letter to the editor: Highlands’ taxes
David Poskin hit the bullseye in his letter “Highlands budget woes” (March 19, TribLIVE) when he challenged the value received for the tax dollars being spent. He wrote that last year Highlands’ tax rate was the eighth highest among Allegheny County’s 45 school districts, yet the district requested a tax...
Donald Boudreaux: Save us from a ‘manufacturing czar’
Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., proposes to establish a new federal agency for designing and directing national industrial policy. Named the National Institute of Manufacturing, this agency would be led by what The Washington Post calls a “manufacturing czar, who could report directly to the president. This person would be called...
George Will: Oberlin has graduated from self-caricature to disgrace
WASHINGTON Oberlin College has an admirable liberal past and a contemptible progressive present that will devalue its degrees far into the future. This is punishment for the college’s mendacity about helping to incite a mob mentality and collective bullying in response to “racist” behavior that never happened. Founded in 1833,...
Tirzah Duren: Pennsylvania budget can build on tax reform boom
State lawmakers are heading into budget negotiations with wages rising, record-low unemployment and state revenues surpassing projections — an economic windfall largely due to federal tax reform. With all this great economic news, it would be easy to grow complacent. But here’s the reality: Pennsylvania still lags other states. To...
Editorial: School tax credits are taxes too
What are you OK paying more for every year? Automatically. Without question. What would you sign up for today knowing that it could — and would — escalate annually every Jan. 1? Is there anything? Gov. Tom Wolf vetoed a bill to that effect. The topic of the bill is...
Letter to the editor: Support action on lymphedema treatment
I am a cancer survivor who also has lymphedema, which is painful, debilitating and incurable but is treatable with compression garments and a systemic massage/pumping system that assists in removing the excess fluids from affected tissue. Medicare and many insurances currently do not cover these treatments, and many lymphedema patients...
Letter to the editor: Pittsburgh’s air must be improved
Pittsburgh’s air As someone who just moved to Pittsburgh, I was shocked to discover the gruesome facts surrounding air quality. One out of every three days has unhealthy air quality. The area has become unhealthy to live in. You, your family and your neighbors can play a role in paving...
Letter to the editor: The meaning of ‘free’
free adjective 1. not under the control or power of another; able to act or be done as one wishes. 2. not or no longer confined or in prison. free adverb 1. without cost or payment. free verb 1. release from captivity, confinement or slavery. Seventy-five years have passed since...
Erin Wall: Through the thorns, remembering Antwon Rose II
The Woodland Hills School District is not unique in the problems we face. Yet, we are uniquely forged from the steel-making roots of our past. Like all districts, we strive to provide a top-notch educational institution for our student body. We also seek to lay the foundation of a brick-and-mortar...
Pat Buchanan: Russiagate is no Watergate
“History is repeating itself, and with a vengeance,” John Dean told the judiciary committee, drawing a parallel between Watergate, which brought down Richard Nixon, and “Russiagate” which has bedeviled Donald Trump. But what strikes this veteran of Nixon’s White House is not the similarities but the stark differences. Watergate began...
Editorial: Antwon Rose case has no black-white answers
If there is anything we know a year after the death of Antwon Rose II, it is that nothing is black and white. Even when it seems that everything is black and white. Rose was black. He was 17. He was a kid running from a cop. Michael Rosfeld was...
Letter to the editor: Nothing to admire about media
Letter-writer Richard Davis states that the Mueller investigation vindicates journalists (“Mueller report vindicates journalists,” May 28, TribLIVE). How so? Where’s the evidence of Russian collusion we’ve been promised for the last two years? Turns out it was all wishful thinking. He also states that the media’s “constant vigilance protects our...
